According to adventurer André Malraux, in his La Condition Humaine ( 1933 ), " If a man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity ?".

According to one theory about how Cocteau was inspired to write La Voix humaine, he was experimenting with an idea by fellow French playwright Henri Bernstein.

It is reflected in Martin Scorsese's film adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis's novel The Last Temptation of Christ, in José Saramago's The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Jesus Christ Superstar, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, Monty Python's The Life Of Brian, Jean-Claude La Marre's Color of the Cross and Hal Hartley's The Book of Life.

According to Garcilasso de la Vega, who says that he saw La Peregrina at Seville in 1607, ( Garcilasso, " Historie des Incas, Rois du Perou ," Amsterdam, 1704, Vol.

" According to Dr. Ron Eglash, the construction of the La Forge character stands up to the standards of Afrofuturism.

According to triathlon historian and author Scott Tinley ( and others ), the origin of triathlon is attributed to a race during the 1920s – 1930s that was called variously " Les trois sports ", " La Course des Débrouillards ", and " La course des Touche à Tout ".

Notable films from this period include: La Dolce Vita, 8½ ; La Notte ; L ' Eclisse, The Red Desert ; Blowup ; Satyricon ; Accattone ; The Gospel According to St. Matthew ; Theorem ; Winter Light ; The Silence ; Persona ; Shame ; A Passion ; Au Hasard Balthazar ; Mouchette ; Last Year at Marienbad ; Chronique d ' un été ; Titicut Follies ; High School ; Salesman ; La jetée ; Warrendale ; Knife in the Water ; Repulsion ; The Saragossa Manuscript ; El Topo ; A Hard Day's Night ; and the cinema verite Dont Look Back.

According to its title page, the libretto of La bohème is based on Henri Murger's novel, Scènes de la vie de bohème, a collection of vignettes portraying young bohemians living in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the 1840s.

According to Jean Pierre Mégnin's book La Faune des Cadavres there are eight distinct faunal successions attracted to a corpse.

According to Ojibwa oral history, Spirit Island, located near the Spirit Valley neighborhood, was the " Sixth Stopping Place " where the northern and southern branches of the Ojibwa Nation came together and then proceeded to their " Seventh Stopping Place " near the present city of La Pointe, Wisconsin.

According to recent research, La rhétorique des dieux may consist of works not composed by Denis Gaultier, or original works by him changed by unknown scribes.

According to a poll conducted in 2001 for French Catholic magazine La Croix, numbers are: Roman Catholic 69 % ( only 10 % being listed as regular churchgoers ), Agnostic or Atheist 22 %, Protestant ( Calvinist, Lutheran, Anglican and Evangelical ) 2 %, others are 7 %.

According to Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun in La France Illustrée, 1882, Orléans's arms are " gules, three caillous in cœurs de lys argent, and on a chief azure, three fleurs de lys Or.

According to the epic poem La Araucana, the colors were derived from those from the flag flown by the Mapuche during the Arauco War.

According to NOAA, " Expected La Niña impacts during November – January include a continuation of above-average precipitation over Indonesia and below-average precipitation over the central equatorial Pacific.

A book was published by La Découverte, a French editor, and a video documentary, Le Monde selon Monsanto ( The World According to Monsanto ), was released on DVD and shown on Arte, the Franco-German culture TV channel.

According to one of several legends, the town was given its name by Colonel Samuel Chapman, whose family owned of land in Southern Maryland, including what would become the areas of La Plata and Port Tobacco.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the La Crescenta-Montrose area measures about.

According to local tradition, the name resulted from a lottery: the townsfolk were invited to put a proposed name into a hat, and " La Plata " was the one drawn ; it had been Dr. Moore's choice, under the mistaken impression that it was French for " the silver river.

According to Robert Caro, Fiorello La Guardia, on becoming mayor of New York in 1934, said " È finita la cuccagna!

According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, " self-love " is " the instinct or desire to promote one's well-being "; while La Rochefoucauld considered ' that amour-propre ( self-regard ) is the mainspring of all human activities '.

According to this reading, Job is asserting that after he is dead, his go ' el will take up his case.

According to the National Weather Service, Chicago's highest official temperature reading of was recorded on June 1, 1934, and July 11, 1936, both at Midway Airport.

According to critic Geoffrey Blum, the process that saw its beginnings in 1942's Pirate Gold first bore its full fruit in 1950's ' Vacation Time ,' which he describes as ' a visual primer for reading comics and understanding ... the form ...." From the early 1950s Barks undertook the quarterly adventures of Uncle Scrooge and the duck clan in Scrooge's own title.

According to a very different account by an ancient grammarian, Herodotus refused to begin reading his work at the festival of Olympia until some clouds offered him a bit of shade, by which time however the assembly had dispersed-thus the proverbial expression " Herodotus and his shade " to describe any man who misses his opportunity through delay.

According to Coleridge's Preface to Kubla Khan, the poem was composed one night after he experienced an opium influenced dream after reading a work describing Xanadu, the summer palace of the Mongol ruler and Emperor of China Kublai Khan.

According to Graff, literacy learning was increasing outside of formal settings ( such as schools ) and this uncontrolled, potentially critical reading could lead to increased radicalization of the populace.

According to the standard reading, in the Philosophical Investigations Wittgenstein repudiates many of his own earlier views, expressed in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

( According to Cliff Kincaid, Castro advocated it " specifically in order to generate U. S. financial reparations to the rest of the world ," however a closer reading of Castro's speech shows that he never did mention " the rest of the world " as being recipients of revenue.

* According to the National Endowment for the Arts ( NEA ), the decade showed a continuous increase in reading, although circulation of newspapers has declined in conjunction with the Economic Recession.

According to Put Reading First from the National Institute for Literacy, embedded phonics is described as indirect instruction where " Children are taught letter-sound relationships during the reading of connected text.

According to Davis, he wrote the story when he was unable to find a story that he liked for a Hanukkah reading.

According to Lester Burbank Bridaham, writing in Gargoylaes, Chimeres and the Grotesque in French Gothic Sculpture, " There is much symbolism in the sculpture of Gothic period ; but we must be wary of reading in too much meaning.

According to some of the actors, and confirmed in the writings of Godfrey Baseley, in its early days the show was used as a conduit for announcements from the Ministry of Agriculture, one actor reading an announcement almost verbatim to another.

According to Wozniak, reading the Tom Swift books made him feel " that engineers can save the world from all sorts of conflict and evil ".

According to Ruth Berman of Science Fiction Studies, the lists of suggested reading published for juvenile readers never contained Baum's work.

According to the 2007 book The History of the Hobbit, Tolkien was now influenced by his own selective reading of medieval texts regarding the Jewish people and their history.

According to this reading, Egypt is viewed as destructive and vulgar ; the critic Paul Lawrence Rose writes: “ Shakespeare clearly envisages Egypt as a political hell for the subject, where natural rights count for nothing .” Through the lens of such a reading, the ascendancy of Rome over Egypt does not speak to the practice of empire-building as much as it suggests the inevitable advantage of reason over sensuality.

According to Spielberg biographer Joseph McBride, Universal Pictures appealed directly to the Christian market, with a poster reminiscent of Michelangelo's Creation of Adam and a logo reading " Peace ".

" According to the publisher, " Although individually minor, these changes are nonetheless crucial in that they facilitate a smooth reading of the book ’ s allusive density and essential fabric.

According to the hypothetical reading of Achterberg et al.

According to his reading of the painting, the scene was inspired by the text in a Homeric hymn published in Florence in 1488 by the Greek refugee Demetrios Chalkokondyles:

According to him, he received a divine revelation through the reading and study of Christian bible and allegedly received healing from Jesus Christ.

According to one of Tchaikovsky's fellow students, Alexandr Rubets, Rubinstein would sometimes begin class by reading some verses, then assign them to be set for either solo voice or chorus, depending on the student's preference.